open up the heart

[lightningbugirl 0]

Do you find it hard to open up to people in a relationship? I notice now when I start seeing someone I with hold a lot from them and I never used to. I don't mean keeping secrets but I don't invest everything as fast as I used too... it's very scary.

Are you the cautious type or the jump in feet first type of person?

[blueskyserenity 0]

Try asking this question in the women's forum. You'll probably get a better response. People tend to get flamed for 'feelings' in the Bonfire. Good luck!

I like coconuts. You can break them open and they smell like ladies lying in the sun!

[BIGUN 1,395]

Here's some information on The Johari Window. Not unusual for the 3rd Quadrant to be larger until a certain level of trust is developed.

http://www.augsburg.edu/education/edc210/johari.html

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[Squeak 17]

it's actually not very healthy for a relationship to give out too muchinfo too soon.
so I wouldn't worry too much, you are probably just getting more emotionally mature.

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

"Not unusual for the 3rd Quadrant to be larger until a certain level of trust is developed."

WTF does that mean????

Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[BIGUN 1,395]

Read the material.
Pay attention in class.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[masterrig 1]

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it's actually not very healthy for a relationship to give out too muchinfo too soon.
so I wouldn't worry too much, you are probably just getting more emotionally mature.

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I tend to agree with you. Sometimes, holding your 'cards close to your chest' keeps the other person from knowing what you've got and using it against you.


Chuck

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

NOW! I understand what you stated!!


BIGUN...... LOL!!!!


Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

Uhhhh (cough) (cough) I was sick........


Third Quadrant......is this Med 101?!!


Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[swedishcelt 0]

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Here's some information on The Johari Window. Not unusual for the 3rd Quadrant to be larger until a certain level of trust is developed.

http://www.augsburg.edu/education/edc210/johari.html

I do not subscribe to The Johari Window theory.
I think it's a load of horsecrap.

[RhondaLea 4]

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Here's some information on The Johari Window. Not unusual for the 3rd Quadrant to be larger until a certain level of trust is developed.

http://www.augsburg.edu/education/edc210/johari.html

I do not subscribe to The Johari Window theory.
I think it's a load of horsecrap.

So what's your theory?

If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you came from. Gullah Proverb

[swedishcelt 0]

I haven't settled on one yet. I keep reading and dismissing. I will let you know. You know what they say about psychology and philosophy.

Some of my favorites...

Sure you can psychoanalyze! But, why bother to sort garbage? ~Martin H. Fischer

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology. ~D.H. Lawrence

"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex." ~Karl Marx

"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing." ~Ambrose Bierce

"When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth." ~Albert Einstein

[BIGUN 1,395]

So, you really have nothing more to offer in the form of an explanation to the original post.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.